Do you think that Impact Factor helps or hampers science and/or scholarly publishing?

Recently, Clarivate Analytics (a company that owns Thompson Rueters) released the 2018 Impact Factor for journals, suspending many journals for manipulating their citations. Based on this, do you...

06 July 2018 6,950 39 View

What are you grateful for in 2017?

As we approach the end of 2017, do you have any reason(s) to be grateful? If yes or no, please share with us.

11 December 2017 6,400 38 View

On what condition(s) can one appeal against an unjust rejection of his/her article?

On which circumstance(s) should a researcher appeal to an editor against his/her rejected article? Have you ever appealed against a rejection? Was the appeal successful? Please share your...

11 December 2017 8,971 75 View

Will you ever encourage your children to become academics/researchers like you?

Based on life experiences, one can encourage or discourage his/her children from following a similar career path. Can you encourage or discourage your children from becoming...

10 November 2017 1,418 94 View

Is it ethical to review a paper for a journal after you had earlier read and offered a feedback on the draft to the authors?

If an editor sends a paper to you to review and you discover that it is the paper some authors had earlier asked you to read and give them feedback (during preparation) before submitting it to the...

08 September 2017 6,029 46 View

How many articles should a researcher accept to peer review in a year?

Reviews take time and other resources to conduct/complete, and multiple invitations are received from editors. Based on your experience, how many papers (ideally) should one accept/agree to review...

08 September 2017 9,640 81 View

As a researcher/academic, do you engage in community service?

07 August 2017 8,292 60 View

What will you do if you discover that your name was listed as a member of an editorial team of a predatory journal without your consent?

I found out recently that my name was listed as a member of the editorial board of a predatory journal. What will be your reaction if such happens to you?

07 August 2017 5,864 53 View

Why is suicide rate high among celebrities despite the fact that they often appear to be happy in the media?

06 July 2017 2,055 36 View

Why is media bias increasing rapidly?

01 February 2017 6,669 19 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

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How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

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